Wishing to embrace the present occasion of finding out whether in teaching Joe, I should have to begin quite at the beginning, I said, "Ah! But read the rest, Jo." "The rest, eh, Pip ?" said Joe, looking at it with a slow, searching eye, "One, two, three.

Why, here's three Js, and three Os, and three J-O, Joes in it, Pip!" I leaned over Joe, and, with the aid of my forefinger read him the whole letter.
"Astonishing!" said Joe, when I had finished.

"You ARE a scholar." "How do you spell Gargery, Joe ?" I asked him, with a modest patronage.
"I don't spell it at all," said Joe.
"But supposing you did ?" "It can't be supposed," said Joe.

"Tho' I'm uncommon fond of reading, too." "Are you, Joe ?" "On-common.

Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better.